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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20line | In mathematics, a complex line is a one-dimensional affine subspace of a vector space over the complex numbers. A common point of confusion is that while a complex line has dimension one over C (hence the term "line"), it has dimension two over the real numbers R, and is topologically equivalent to a real plane, not a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response%20time%20%28technology%29 | In technology, response time is the time a system or functional unit takes to react to a given input.
Computing
Response time is the total amount of time it takes to respond to a request for service. That service can be anything from a memory fetch, to a disk IO, to a complex database query, or loading a full web pag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Thromboglobulin | β-Thromboglobulin (β-TG), or beta-thromboglobulin, is a chemokine protein secreted by platelets. It is a type of chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 7. Along with platelet factor 4 (PF4), β-TG is one of the best-characterized platelet-specific proteins. β-TG and PF4 are stored in platelet alpha granules and are released dur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete%20Bessel%20functions | In mathematics, the incomplete Bessel functions are types of special functions which act as a type of extension from the complete-type of Bessel functions.
Definition
The incomplete Bessel functions are defined as the same delay differential equations of the complete-type Bessel functions:
And the following suitable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora%20Media%20Writer | Fedora Media Writer is an open source tool designed to create live media for Fedora Linux.
Features
Cross-platform (available for Linux, macOS, and Windows)
Destructive installer - "overwrites the drive's partition layout though so it also provides a way to restore a single-partition layout with a FAT32 partition"
Sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolobus | Pyrolobus is a genus of the Pyrodictiaceae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%20transform | In mathematics, Jacobi transform is an integral transform named after the mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, which uses Jacobi polynomials as kernels of the transform
.
The Jacobi transform of a function is
The inverse Jacobi transform is given by
Some Jacobi transform pairs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20manufacturing | Distributed manufacturing also known as distributed production, cloud producing, distributed digital manufacturing, and local manufacturing is a form of decentralized manufacturing practiced by enterprises using a network of geographically dispersed manufacturing facilities that are coordinated using information techno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20network%20protocol%20stacks | This is a list of protocol stack architectures. A protocol stack is a suite of complementary communications protocols in a computer network or a computer bus system.
See also
Lists of network protocols
IEEE 802
Network protocols
Communications protocols
Network protocol stacks
stacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Distributed%20Computing%20Systems | The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) is the oldest conference in the field of distributed computing systems in the world. It was launched by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) in October 1979, and is sponsored by such committee. It was started... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20specialist | Mission specialist (MS) was a specific position held by certain NASA astronauts who were tasked with conducting a range of scientific, medical, or engineering experiments during a spaceflight mission. These specialists were usually assigned to a specific field of expertise that was related to the goals of the particula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Philipsen | Lauritz Carl Constantin Philipsen (1 December 1859 in Copenhagen; died 23 August 1925 Copenhagen) is credited as one of the founders of the Cinema of Denmark.
Biography
Philipsen, a photographer toured Scandinavian nations from 1898 with his magic lantern He eventually sold his photography business to enter the emer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber%20of%20vermis | The tuber of vermis, the most posterior division of the inferior vermis, is of small size, and laterally spreads out into the large inferior semilunar lobules, which comprise at least two-thirds of the inferior surface of the hemisphere.
Additional Images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Cables | The China Cables are a collection of secret Chinese government documents from 2017 which were leaked by exiled Uyghurs to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and published on 24 November 2019. The documents include a telegram which details the first known operations manual for running the Xinjian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber%20toughening | Rubber toughening is a process in which rubber nanoparticles are interspersed within a polymer matrix to increase the mechanical robustness, or toughness, of the material. By "toughening" a polymer it is meant that the ability of the polymeric substance to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracture is increa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Dark%20Energy%20Mission | The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) was an Einstein probe that planned to focus on investigating dark energy. JDEM was a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
In August 2010, the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Science Foundation (NSF) recommended the Wide Field Infrared Sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee%20%28structure%29 | A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel, theatre, casino, train station, or similar building. It often has signage stating either the name of the establishment or, in the case of theatres, the play or movie and the artist(s) appearing at that venue. The marquee is sometimes identifiab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrapure%20water | Ultrapure water (UPW), high-purity water or highly purified water (HPW) is water that has been purified to uncommonly stringent specifications. Ultrapure water is a term commonly used in manufacturing to emphasize the fact that the water is treated to the highest levels of purity for all contaminant types, including: o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%20wave | A P wave (primary wave or pressure wave) is one of the two main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology. P waves travel faster than other seismic waves and hence are the first signal from an earthquake to arrive at any affected location or at a seismograph. P waves may be transmitted through gas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion%20insects | Carrion insects are insects associated with decomposing remains. The processes of decomposition begin within a few minutes of death. Decomposing remains offer a temporary, changing site of concentrated resources which are exploited by a wide range of organisms, of which arthropods are often the first to arrive and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton%20effect | The Cotton effect in physics, is the characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance.
In a wavelength region where the light is absorbed, the absolute magnitude of the optical rotation at first varies rapidly with wavelength, crosses ze... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immerman%E2%80%93Szelepcs%C3%A9nyi%20theorem | In computational complexity theory, the Immerman–Szelepcsényi theorem states that nondeterministic space complexity classes are closed under complementation. It was proven independently by Neil Immerman and Róbert Szelepcsényi in 1987, for which they shared the 1995 Gödel Prize. In its general form the theorem states t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-topological%20space | In mathematics, an N-topological space is a set equipped with N arbitrary topologies. If τ1, τ2, ..., τN are N topologies defined on a nonempty set X, then the N-topological space is denoted by (X,τ1,τ2,...,τN).
For N = 1, the structure is simply a topological space.
For N = 2, the structure becomes a bitopological spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsomal%20triglyceride%20transfer%20protein | Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein large subunit is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MTTP gene.
MTP encodes the large subunit of the heterodimeric microsomal triglyceride transfer protein. Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) completes the heterodimeric microsomal triaglyceride transfer protein, which has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Hadamard | Jacques Salomon Hadamard (; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
Biography
The son of a teacher, Amédée Hadamard, of Jewish descent, and Claire Marie Jeanne Picard, Hadam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticides%20Safety%20Directorate | The Pesticides Safety Directorate was an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It was based in York, England, with about 200 scientific, policy and support staff and was responsible for the authorisation of plant protection products and, from 2005, detergents, in the United Kingdom.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ax%E2%80%93Kochen%20theorem | The Ax–Kochen theorem, named for James Ax and Simon B. Kochen, states that for each positive integer d there is a finite set Yd of prime numbers, such that if p is any prime not in Yd then every homogeneous polynomial of degree d over the p-adic numbers in at least d2 + 1 variables has a nontrivial zero.
The proof of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave%20of%20Swimmers | The Cave of Swimmers is a cave with ancient rock art in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert section of the Sahara. It is located in the New Valley Governorate of southwest Egypt, near the border with Libya.
History
The cave and rock art was discovered in October 1933 by the Hungarian explorer Lászl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew%20Rule | The Kew Rule was used by some authors to determine the application of synonymous names in botanical nomenclature up to about 1906, but was and still is contrary to codes of botanical nomenclature including the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Index Kewensis, a publication that aimed to l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeat%20instruction | In computer instruction set architectures (ISA), a repeat instruction is a machine language instruction which repeatedly executes another instruction a fixed number of times, or until some condition is met.
Since it is an instruction that operates on other instructions like the execute instruction, it has been classif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio%20appalachiensis | Papilio appalachiensis, the Appalachian tiger swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in eastern North America, particularly in the Appalachian Mountains. It is a hybrid of another two Papilio species, Papilio canadensis and Papilio glaucus, with which it shares many characteristics. The butterflies ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s%20function | In mathematics, a Green's function is the impulse response of an inhomogeneous linear differential operator defined on a domain with specified initial conditions or boundary conditions.
This means that if is the linear differential operator, then
the Green's function is the solution of the equation , where is Dir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac%20marker | Cardiac markers are biomarkers measured to evaluate heart function. They can be useful in the early prediction or diagnosis of disease. Although they are often discussed in the context of myocardial infarction, other conditions can lead to an elevation in cardiac marker level.
Most of the early markers identified were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Redner | Sidney Redner (born 1951) is a Canadian-born physicist, professor, and a resident faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. He was formerly department chair of physics at Boston University. Redner has published over 200 journal articles, authored a book titled A Guide to First-Passage Processes (2001, ), and coauthor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Schulte%20Moore | Lisa Schulte Moore is an American landscape ecologist. Schulte Moore is a professor of natural resource ecology and management at Iowa State University. In 2020 she received a $10 million USD grant to study anerobic digestion and its application to turning manure into usable energy. In 2021 she was named a MacArthur fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurebus | Futurebus, or IEEE 896, is a computer bus standard, intended to replace all local bus connections in a computer, including the CPU, memory, plug-in cards and even, to some extent, LAN links between machines. The effort started in 1979 and didn't complete until 1987, and then immediately went into a redesign that lasted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HistoAtlas | HistoAtlas is a free collection of historic geographic information of the human culture all over the world. This is achieved as a time enabled geographic information system (GIS) on the web. All information can be used and edited freely and is intended to be a resource for education, archaeologists, historians and othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Bimba | Juan Bimba is a fictitious character used in the past as the national personification of Venezuela, but is now regarded as obsolete. According to the local folklore of the region of Cumaná the name comes from a mentally ill local inhabitant of the 1850s; but this version is doubtful. It was first used by Juan Vicente G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CpG%20site | The CpG sites or CG sites are regions of DNA where a cytosine nucleotide is followed by a guanine nucleotide in the linear sequence of bases along its 5' → 3' direction. CpG sites occur with high frequency in genomic regions called CpG islands (or CG islands).
Cytosines in CpG dinucleotides can be methylated to form ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieller%27s%20theorem | In statistics, Fieller's theorem allows the calculation of a confidence interval for the ratio of two means.
Approximate confidence interval
Variables a and b may be measured in different units, so there is no way to directly combine the standard errors as they may also be in different units. The most complete discuss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCB%20Innovator%20Award | The ISCB Innovator Award is a computational biology prize awarded annually to leading scientists who are within two decades post-degree, who consistently make outstanding contributions to the field, and who continue to forge new directions.
The prize was established by the International Society for Computational Biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappus%27s%20centroid%20theorem | In mathematics, Pappus's centroid theorem (also known as the Guldinus theorem, Pappus–Guldinus theorem or Pappus's theorem) is either of two related theorems dealing with the surface areas and volumes of surfaces and solids of revolution.
The theorems are attributed to Pappus of Alexandria and Paul Guldin. Pappus's s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutator%20%28electric%29 | A commutator is a rotary electrical switch in certain types of electric motors and electrical generators that periodically reverses the current direction between the rotor and the external circuit. It consists of a cylinder composed of multiple metal contact segments on the rotating armature of the machine. Two or mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20crystal%20on%20silicon | Liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS or LCOS) is a miniaturized reflective active-matrix liquid-crystal display or "microdisplay" using a liquid crystal layer on top of a silicon backplane. It is also referred to as a spatial light modulator. LCoS was initially developed for projection televisions but is now used for wavele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Gullberg | Jan Gullberg (1936 – 21 May 1998) was a Swedish surgeon and anaesthesiologist, but became known as a writer on popular science and medical topics. He is best known outside Sweden as the author of Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers, published by W. W. Norton in 1997 ().
Life
Gullberg grew up and was trained as a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20metric%20space | In mathematics, probabilistic metric spaces are a generalization of metric spaces where the distance no longer takes values in the non-negative real numbers , but in distribution functions.
Let D+ be the set of all probability distribution functions F such that F(0) = 0 (F is a nondecreasing, left continuous mappi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloragogen%20cell | Chloragogen cells, also called y cells, are star-shaped cells in annelids involved with excretory functions and intermediary metabolism. These cells function similarly to the liver found in vertebrates. Chloragogen tissue is most extensively studied in earthworms.
Structure and location
These cells are derived from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20and%20Ichthyology | A Geographic Information System is a tool for mapping and analyzing data. The ability to layer many features onto the same map and select or unselect as needed allows for a multitude of views and ease of interpreting data. More important, this allows for in depth scientific analysis and problem solving.
Ichthyology ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix | Grawlix (), also known as obscenicon, is a combination of various typographical symbols or other unpronounceable characters that replaces a profanity. It is mainly used in cartoons and comics. It is used to get around language restrictions or censorship in publishing.
At signs (@), dollar signs ($), hashtag sign (#), a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness%20extractor | A randomness extractor, often simply called an "extractor", is a function, which being applied to output from a weak entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed. Examples of weakly random sources inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20quotient | In algebraic geometry, a geometric quotient of an algebraic variety X with the action of an algebraic group G is a morphism of varieties such that
(i) For each y in Y, the fiber is an orbit of G.
(ii) The topology of Y is the quotient topology: a subset is open if and only if is open.
(iii) For any open subset , i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20astronomy | X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy which deals with the study of X-ray observation and detection from astronomical objects. X-radiation is absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so instruments to detect X-rays must be taken to high altitude by balloons, sounding rockets, and satellites. X-ray astron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20pressure | In thermodynamics, thermal pressure (also known as the thermal pressure coefficient) is a measure of the relative pressure change of a fluid or a solid as a response to a temperature change at constant volume. The concept is related to the Pressure-Temperature Law, also known as Amontons's law or Gay-Lussac's law.
In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephelescope | A nephelescope is a device invented by James Pollard Espy to measure the drop in temperature of a gas from a reduction in pressure; originally used to explore the formation of clouds.
Original design
The original design consisted of an air compression pump (a), a vessel (b), and a barometer (c).
Air is pumped into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramormyrops | Paramormyrops is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae from Africa.
Species
There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:
Paramormyrops batesii (Boulenger 1906) (Kribi mormyrid)
Paramormyrops curvifrons (Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde, Heymer & Géry, 1977) (Ivindo mormyrid)
Paramormyrops ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20McLenaghan | Raymond George McLenaghan (born 14 April 1939) is a Canadian theoretical physicist and mathematician. With Carminati, he is known for Carminati–McLenaghan invariants.
Notes
External links
1939 births
Canadian mathematicians
Canadian physicists
Relativity theorists
Theoretical physicists
Alumni of the University of C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%20calculus | In mathematical logic, category theory, and
computer science, kappa calculus is a
formal system for defining first-order
functions.
Unlike lambda calculus, kappa calculus has no
higher-order functions; its functions are
not first class objects. Kappa-calculus can be
regarded as "a reformulation of the first-order fra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital%20emissary%20vein | The occipital emissary vein is a small emissary vein which passes through the condylar canal. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holozoic%20nutrition | Holozoic nutrition (Greek: holo-whole ; zoikos-of animals) is a type of heterotrophic nutrition that is characterized by the internalization (ingestion) and internal processing of liquids or solid food particles. Protozoa, such as amoebas, and most of the free living animals, such as humans, exhibit this type of nutri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20Theory%20of%20Secrecy%20Systems | "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems" is a paper published in 1949 by Claude Shannon discussing cryptography from the viewpoint of information theory. It is one of the foundational treatments (arguably the foundational treatment) of modern cryptography. It is also a proof that all theoretically unbreakable ciphers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLNS1B | Chloride channel, nucleotide-sensitive, 1A, also known as CLNS1A, is a human gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a chloride channel regulator. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary%20public%20health | Veterinary public health (VPH) is a component of public health that focuses on the application of veterinary science to protect and improve the physical, mental and social well-being of humans. In several countries activities related to VPH are organized by the chief veterinary officer.
Conventionally veterinary publi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott%E2%80%93Bethe%20formula | The Mott–Bethe formula is an approximation used to calculate atomic electron scattering form factors, , from atomic X-ray scattering form factors, . The formula was derived independently by Hans Bethe and Neville Mott both in 1930, and simply follows from applying the first Born approximation for the scattering of elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIOP | In distributed computing, SECIOP (SECure Inter-ORB Protocol) is a protocol for secure inter-ORB communication. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20mycology | This glossary of mycology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to mycology, the study of fungi. Terms in common with other fields, if repeated here, generally focus on their mycology-specific meaning. Related terms can be found in glossary of biology and glossary of botany, among others. List of Lati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESS%20%28experiment%29 | BESS is a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon. BESS stands for Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer. BESS is a series of experiments that started in 1993, and a later incarnation, BESS-Polar, circled the Antarctic from December 13 to December 21, 2004, for a total of 8 days 17 hours a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%20of%20the%20Duke%20of%20Noja | The Map of the Duke of Noja is a topographic map of city of Naples and its environs, created in 1775. It was the primary topographic and urban planning tool for Naples between the 17th and 19th centuries.
The map was an important cartographic and urban planning tool for the city, an embellished art piece, and has bee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorptivity | In 1957 John Philip introduced the term sorptivity and defined it as a measure of the capacity of the medium to absorb or desorb liquid by capillarity.
According to C Hall and W D Hoff, the sorptivity expresses the tendency of a material to absorb and transmit water and other liquids by capillarity.
The sorptivity is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20in%20delay-tolerant%20networking | Routing in delay-tolerant networking concerns itself with the ability to transport, or route, data from a source to a destination, which is a fundamental ability all communication networks must have. Delay- and disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) are characterized by their lack of connectivity, resulting in a lack of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%27s%20figure%20of%20merit | Johnson's figure of merit is a measure of suitability of a semiconductor material for high frequency power transistor applications and requirements. More specifically, it is the product of the charge carrier saturation velocity in the material and the electric breakdown field under same conditions, first proposed by Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonella%20Cupillari | Antonella Cupillari (born 1955) is an Italian-American mathematician interested in the history of mathematics and mathematics education. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Education and career
Cupillari earned a laurea at the University of L'Aquila in 1978, and comple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadiumOne | RadiumOne is a marketing company that provides online display, mobile, video, and social advertising services through programmatic marketing campaigns. It was first launched in 2009 by Gurbaksh Chahal. The company buys advertising space from websites and mobile applications and resells it in targeted packages to advert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantry | A pantry is a room or cupboard where beverages, food, (sometimes) dishes, household cleaning products, linens or provisions are stored within a home or office. Food and beverage pantries serve in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen.
Etymology
The word "pantry" derives from the same source as the Old French term ; tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20%28classical%20thermodynamics%29 | In classical thermodynamics, entropy () is a property of a thermodynamic system that expresses the direction or outcome of spontaneous changes in the system. The term was introduced by Rudolf Clausius in the mid-19th century to explain the relationship of the internal energy that is available or unavailable for transfo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular%20membrane | The reticular membrane (RM, also called reticular lamina or apical cuticular plate) is a thin, stiff lamina that extends from the outer hair cells to the Hensen's cells. The RM is composed of "minute-fiddle-shaped cuticular structures" called the phalangeal extensions of the outer hair cells, interspaced with extension... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segal%20category | In mathematics, a Segal category is a model of an infinity category introduced by , based on work of Graeme Segal in 1974. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Maciejowski | Jan M. Maciejowski FIEEE is a British electrical engineer. He is Professor Emeritus of Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is notable for his contributions to system identification and control.
Career
Maciejowski studied at the University of Sussex (BSc 1971) and the University of Cambridge (PhD 197... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20colours%2C%20standards%20and%20guidons | The following is a list of historical military colours, standards and guidons in different countries that do not exist today.
France
Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages, units did not have specific colours attached to them; rather, they often wore the heraldry of their lord. The armies of France often used the fleur-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desensitization%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, desensitization is a method to reduce or eliminate an organism's negative reaction to a substance or stimulus.
In pharmacology, drug desensitization refers to two related concepts. First, desensitization may be equivalent to drug tolerance and refers to subjects' reactions (positive or negative) to a drug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue%20code | In computer programming, glue code is executable code (often source code) that serves solely to "adapt" different parts of code that would otherwise be incompatible. Glue code does not contribute any functionality towards meeting program requirements. Instead, it often appears in code that lets existing libraries or pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20homeostasis | In biology, energy homeostasis, or the homeostatic control of energy balance, is a biological process that involves the coordinated homeostatic regulation of food intake (energy inflow) and energy expenditure (energy outflow). The human brain, particularly the hypothalamus, plays a central role in regulating energy hom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20orientation | Nuclear orientation, in nuclear physics, is the directional ordering of an assembly of nuclear spins with respect to some axis in space. It is one of the nuclear spectroscopy methods.
A nuclear level with spin in a magnetic field will divide into magnetic sub-levels with an energy spacing.
The populations of these lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20%28mathematics%29 | In algebraic geometry, flips and flops are codimension-2 surgery operations arising in the minimal model program, given by blowing up along a relative canonical ring. In dimension 3 flips are used to construct minimal models, and any two birationally equivalent minimal models are connected by a sequence of flops. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine | Cytokines are a broad and loose category of small proteins (~5–25 kDa) important in cell signaling. Due to their size, cytokines cannot cross the lipid bilayer of cells to enter the cytoplasm and therefore typically exert their functions by interacting with specific cytokine receptors on the target cell surface. Cytoki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitino | In supergravity theories combining general relativity and supersymmetry, the gravitino () is the gauge fermion supersymmetric partner of the hypothesized graviton. It has been suggested as a candidate for dark matter.
If it exists, it is a fermion of spin and therefore obeys the Rarita–Schwinger equation. The gravit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny%20graph | In geometric graph theory, a penny graph is a contact graph of unit circles. It is formed from a collection of unit circles that do not cross each other, by creating a vertex for each circle and an edge for every pair of tangent circles. The circles can be represented physically by pennies, arranged without overlapping... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20cannabis | Medical cannabis, or medical marijuana (MMJ), is cannabis and cannabinoids that are prescribed by physicians for their patients. The use of cannabis as medicine has not been rigorously tested due to production and governmental restrictions, resulting in limited clinical research to define the safety and efficacy of usi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesine%20Reinert | Gesine Reinert is a German statistician who is University Professor in Statistics at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Her research concerns the probability theory and statistics of biologi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma%20haemomuris | Mycoplasma haemomuris, formerly known as Haemobartonella muris and Bartonella muris, is a Gram-negative bacillus. It is known to cause anemia in rats and mice. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic%20microbiology | Diagnostic microbiology is the study of microbial identification. Since the discovery of the germ theory of disease, scientists have been finding ways to harvest specific organisms. Using methods such as differential media or genome sequencing, physicians and scientists can observe novel functions in organisms for more... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel%20electrophoresis%20of%20nucleic%20acids | Nucleic acid electrophoresis is an analytical technique used to separate DNA or RNA fragments by size and reactivity. Nucleic acid molecules which are to be analyzed are set upon a viscous medium, the gel, where an electric field induces the nucleic acids (which are negatively charged due to their sugar-phosphate backb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrier%20Lecture | The Ferrier Lecture is a Royal Society lectureship given every three years "on a subject related to the advancement of natural knowledge on the structure and function of the nervous system". It was created in 1928 to honour the memory of Sir David Ferrier, a neurologist who was the first British scientist to electronic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20deployment | Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.
The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. These activities can occur on the producer side or on the consumer side or both. Because every software system i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncommutative%20harmonic%20analysis | In mathematics, noncommutative harmonic analysis is the field in which results from Fourier analysis are extended to topological groups that are not commutative. Since locally compact abelian groups have a well-understood theory, Pontryagin duality, which includes the basic structures of Fourier series and Fourier tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20smear | A blood smear, peripheral blood smear or blood film is a thin layer of blood smeared on a glass microscope slide and then stained in such a way as to allow the various blood cells to be examined microscopically. Blood smears are examined in the investigation of hematological (blood) disorders and are routinely employed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20scattering | Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle, usually an electron. Specifically, when the photon hits electrons, it releases loosely bound electrons from the outer valence shells of atoms or molecules.
The effect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette%20Libermann | Paulette Libermann (14 November 1919 – 10 July 2007) was a French mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.
Early life and education
Libermann was one of three sisters born to a family of Russian-Ukrainian Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants to Paris.
After attending the Lycée Lamartine, she began her univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20supracondylar%20ridge | The lateral supracondylar ridge is a prominent, rough margin on the lower part of the lateral border of the humerus. It presents an anterior lip for the origin of forearm extensors, including the brachioradialis muscle above, and the extensor carpi radialis longus muscle below. It also presents a posterior lip for the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix%20tree%20clustering | Suffix Tree Clustering, often abbreviated as STC is an approach for clustering that uses suffix trees. A suffix tree cluster keeps track of all n-grams of any given length to be inserted into a set word string, while simultaneously allowing differing strings to be inserted incrementally in a linear order. This has the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20of%20differentiation | The cluster of differentiation (also known as cluster of designation or classification determinant and often abbreviated as CD) is a protocol used for the identification and investigation of cell surface molecules providing targets for immunophenotyping of cells. In terms of physiology, CD molecules can act in numerous... |
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